Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing
I can understand how to refine my work in clear and identifiable ways.
Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing
I can understand how to refine my work in clear and identifiable ways.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Free writing is designed to help you unleash your creativity.
- Revising is where you look at or consider again a piece of writing in order to correct or improve it.
- In order to evoke an emotional response from the reader, you need to carefully consider the words you use.
- Accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar is essential to help your reader understand your writing.
Keywords
Creativity - The ability to produce or use original and unusual ideas.
Evoke - To bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind..
Rewrite - The process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words.
Ambitious - It needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful.
Edit - The process of making technical corrections to a piece of writing.
Common misconception
That you always have to plan before a piece of creative writing.
While a plan is very useful, and should be used in most cases, sometimes free writing can be a way of unleashing creativity that can then be revised.
Equipment
Access to dictionaries is beneficial for this lesson - either physical copies or online.
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
Lesson video
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